That effect is what makes the skateboard trick an "impossible" so impressive, because the skater is able to counteract this extra spin using their foot.
A slight correction. While the rules of table tennis do not prescribe a racquet size, they do say that you have to use an approved rubber and that that rubber has to cover the entire blade. Since all approved rubber sheets are below certain dimensions, this indirectly creates a maximum size for a racquet. Also, in recent times (since this show was recorded) the non-black side of the racquet has been freed up and can now be various alternate colours other than just red.
So this os entirely wrong then? It can't be any material as long as it is black and red? It doesn't even have to be black and red. Or even any size. Is anything at all on this show ever true because there seems to be a fairly frequent sloppyness with facts.
@@jonatanrullman The red and black part was true at the time of recording. And the bat size not being regulated directly is also true but it is indirectly regulated via the approved rubbers. There is an episode of QI (Fry era iirc) where they talk about the half life of facts and point out that many of the things that were stated on the show stopped being true in the intervening time, with an appropriate points rebate to the contestants. This is such a case.
Can you technically not melt the rubber (in some senses) and thus make it quite a bit larger? Whoops I burnt my rubber on the stovetop this morning guys.
@@justincronkright5025 The rules also prohibit players from changing the properties of rubbers in any way. No joke - some players at lower levels will leave certain rubbers out in the sun to modify them to be similar to formerly legal (but now banned) rubbers. This is strictly forbidden but is difficult to enforce at amateur level.
@@zelandakhniteblade5436 I did assume that was the case, I did actually have a minor/fun/ulteriour motive in coming up with/expressing such a concept... and that was towards asking - is Whiff-Whaff/Ping-Pong therefore the one sport where the instrument of play (the racket or even the ball) is not made contemptable in the form of brandishments by advertisements? Even if it is for one's own tournament/league...
A symmetric object has three axes of symmetry, one longest, one shortest and one in between. Another way to look at it is that the spin around those axes will be fastest, slowest, and in between. Whatever the ratios between them, they're always in some order like that. It turns out that the fastest and slowest spins are always stable - if you are not quite spinning around the fastest or slowest axis, the spin will converge on it. But the middle axis is always unstable. A small perturbation from the exact axis will end up sliding through a bit of spin around one of the other axes, more likely the fastest spinning one.
The reason for this occuring is that each of the three axis have a differing moment of inertia. Particularly the intermediate axis cannot spin in a stable fashion because of the inertia from the other two axis' interfering.
Whether it is the youtube algorithm or just sheer coincidence i happened just a day or so ago to watch a video on youtube on the varitasium channel that covers this very topic in more depth & was fascinated - enough to recommend it to anyone who reads this "the bizarre physics of wingnuts" or similar. Well worth a watch
This is what, in addition to his magnificent brain, made Richard Feynman the scientist he was. He wasn't afraid or ashamed to say "I don't know." Those who present themselves as know-it-alls have never discovered a damn thing.
I learned about that "spin-flip" effect with a hammer (by reading a short squib in either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazine in the early 1970s). An ordinary claw hammer (or better, a straight-claw framing hammer) has the same property: hold it by the handle with the head oriented to your right and left, flip it and catch it by the handle, and it will inevitably reverse the orientation of hammer face and claws along the way. ONCE, twenty-some years ago, I managed to flip a framing hammer (a Death Stick, hickory handle and titanium head, though those details most likely don't matter) without it doing that -- after twenty or so attempts to apply *exactly* the right amount of counter-torque while flipping. I'll agree, this is most likely impossible with a relatively lightweight object like a table tennis bat. BTW, it *is* possible to flip a hammer without it reversing, if you hold it *by the head.* Careful you don't whack yourself in the forehead with the handle, however...
I thought this was called the intermediate axis theorem, but I see the Wikipedia calls it the Tennis racket theorem. You can do the same thing with a typical slate-style smartphone. Probably best to do over a bed or a soft chair. It has a short axis through the middle front front to back, a long axis from top to bottom, and an intermediate axis from side to side. You can throw it with a spin around either the short or the long axis, and it will keep spinning the same way as it flies. But if you spin it around the intermediate axis it will tumble and change spin direction in the air.
Oh, cool! I have actually kinda noticed that before jus messing around with my phone without realizing why that was happening! Thanks for sharing that example and explanation
You don't have to have red and black rubbers anymore, just two different colors. Blue and pink rubbers are also made now for instance. It's also called a bat not a racket.
Table Tennis England say that one side must be black, the other can be any colour which can be clearly distinguished from black and from the colour of the ball (rule 2.4.6).
Physics Girl has a video "Why this trick should be impossible" on the physics of skateboarding (particularly "the impossible") about the same effect that viewers might enjoy. Veritasium has a video "The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies" that defies Feynman by explaining the effect intuitively (an explanation owing to Terence Tao). Also brings in the Cold War and the apocalypse.
@@Tillyard86 Yes. You don't actually see the paddle in his hand or tossing it, but in the first frame where the paddle can be seen, it's in the air level with Tom's face, handle straight down, red side facing us.
It's not impossible, just incredibly unlikely. You have to get the paddle thrown in a fabulously precise way so that the axis is in essence balanced. The problem is that the axis is so short that finding that one tiny point of balance is very difficult. I've seen it done with a paddle, but I doubt I'll ever see it again.
The precession proceeds exponentially - so yes, if you keep it VERY tight, there's a chance that you'll catch it before it's flipped (but it will have already begun the process). Essentially the same thing as trying to balance something on a pin - sure you theoretically could, but even if you account for thermal effects, there's enough energy to move the thing off the balance point (keyword: unstable equilibrium). There's a much easier way to catch it original side up - just throw it high enough that you get two complete rotations in that axis.
Sceptically convinced it is simply a consequence of the height the bat is thrown how many rotations are possible, thus determing the colour on landing, science is paused whilst the bat is being repaired.
If you drop a small hard rubber ball with a spin (like a back spin) the ball's spin will reverse after it hits and bounces back... this process of reversing its spin will continue until the momentum of the initial spin dies away.
This is commonly known as the tennis racket theorem, or more boringly as the intermediate axis theorem. I don't know of a simple way to explain it either. It falls out of the math very clearly. Maybe someone could explain it to me in a more intuitive way.
I'm pretty sure there was a video with an attempt to explain it clearly. I don't remember who made it, but I think it was one of: 3Blue1Brown Smarter Every Day Minute Physics Steve Mould I'll go look for the video now, hopefully I can find it! Edit: oh, dozens of other comments already mention it was Veritasium. Here: ua-cam.com/video/1VPfZ_XzisU/v-deo.html
2.4.6 The surface of the covering material on a side of the blade, or of a side of the blade if it is left uncovered, shall be matt, black on one side, and of a bright colour clearly distinguishable from black and from the colour of the ball on the other. (ITTF: The Laws of Table Tennis 2022)
i think they are wrong about not being able to catch the racket on the same side. all you need to do is let the racket flip twice in the air. since one flip inverts it, a second rights it.
I love how it's the same with mobile phones, no matter how perfect the flip it will most likely turn around mid air Edit: I am not responsible if you drop it and it breaks
I was intrigued by your comment and I was plesantly surprised. A full 360 flip and most of the time it will land opposite side up. I did it roughly 50 times, but i did managed 2 flips where i (by luck) didnt impart any spin in the other axis and it landed the same side up. So mostly true when it come to doing this with a phone. I do love it when they do stuff on QI that you can immediately try it out for yourself.
I have just tested this and I was able to catch it on the same side I threw it from multiple times so it’s not true. It was about 50/50 which side it landed on. I was only throwing it with the screen side up.
American here, and I've usually heard it called a "paddle". Per Wikipedia: The USA generally uses the term "paddle" while Europeans and Asians use the term "bat" and the official [International Table Tennis Federation] term is "racket".
Correct yes, it's very easy to master the intermediate axis theorem in practice, knowing how much flick to give it and how much time you need to let it spin before catching it is very easy to learn intuitively.
@@EebstertheGreat not entirely true. Satellites were spun early on to help stabilise their orbits. That’s actually where this effect first raised its head in space.
@@davidmackenzie9701 Fencing is both erecting a barrier and an Olympic sport. Your counterpoint is that one word is used in some contexts so cannot be used in others? That's some obviously flawed reasoning you're sporting there, Sport.
Mostly b*ll*cks bar the video from Soyuz & (surprisingly) Alan's comment: Damnit they're not even *raquets* ............ Like Sandy - They're *BATS* Throw & Flip the bat with differing forces & angles of 'flick' and you surely you have every prospect of dedtermining which side lands uppermost? (It works with other items afterall) Why is Alan's comment a gem? He kind of articulated with great simplicity one of the core precepts of Special Relativity & Quantum linkage Now please excuse me - I have to go and flip off a bat 🙄
1:06 gets clapped for telling everyone she's going to say something that was said to her - in essence she is repeating what someone else said. Get's applauded like she's saved an orphanage??
An interesting phenomenon I did not know. However something extremely annoying to me. A racquet has strings, and you play sports like tennis, badminton and squash with a racquet. A table tennis bat (paddle US) is not a racquet. Also I know in Britain we accept the US spelling of racquet, but this is the British Broadcasting Company not the American Broadcasting Company.
@@davidmackenzie9701 Hi David I fully understand what you are trying to say. Unfortunately, most dictionary’s definition of racquet (US racket) is “ a piece of sports equipment used for hitting the ball, etc. in the games of tennis, squash or badminton. It has an oval frame, with strings stretched across and down it.” Personally, I would rather believe the definition given by educated professionals who write and maintain the Oxford dictionary, than a ping pong player who made up the rules up for table tennis. Maybe that’s where they got confused when they saw the word “tennis” and presumed to call the table tennis bat a racquet (US racket) in the rules of table tennis, and didn’t bother to look at the definition of racquet (US racket)?
Nice ratio, 1 straight guest 3 gay guests and 1 gay presenter. I am not anti anything or anyone, but a fair representation of the demographic of the nation would not go amiss.
@@DrWhoFanJ He means Katherine Ryan. I agree with you, these comedians are fine by me. Can't stand Jack Whitehall or Jon Ross though, which only goes to show everyone has different tastes. What a surprise :)
"It wasn't quick and it didn't fit..." The line that broke me this evening. 😂
Kwik*
That's one of the best comic returns I've ever heard!
I love Sandi and Susan's back-and-forths.
I need a compilation of all the instances of flirting banter between the host & a guest-would be brilliant 😊
Nice Pun!!
It's the successor to Phill Jupitus flirting with Stephen.
That effect is what makes the skateboard trick an "impossible" so impressive, because the skater is able to counteract this extra spin using their foot.
I was thinking about skateboarding the moment I saw the varial flips.
A slight correction. While the rules of table tennis do not prescribe a racquet size, they do say that you have to use an approved rubber and that that rubber has to cover the entire blade. Since all approved rubber sheets are below certain dimensions, this indirectly creates a maximum size for a racquet. Also, in recent times (since this show was recorded) the non-black side of the racquet has been freed up and can now be various alternate colours other than just red.
So this os entirely wrong then? It can't be any material as long as it is black and red? It doesn't even have to be black and red. Or even any size. Is anything at all on this show ever true because there seems to be a fairly frequent sloppyness with facts.
@@jonatanrullman The red and black part was true at the time of recording. And the bat size not being regulated directly is also true but it is indirectly regulated via the approved rubbers. There is an episode of QI (Fry era iirc) where they talk about the half life of facts and point out that many of the things that were stated on the show stopped being true in the intervening time, with an appropriate points rebate to the contestants. This is such a case.
Can you technically not melt the rubber (in some senses) and thus make it quite a bit larger?
Whoops I burnt my rubber on the stovetop this morning guys.
@@justincronkright5025 The rules also prohibit players from changing the properties of rubbers in any way. No joke - some players at lower levels will leave certain rubbers out in the sun to modify them to be similar to formerly legal (but now banned) rubbers. This is strictly forbidden but is difficult to enforce at amateur level.
@@zelandakhniteblade5436 I did assume that was the case, I did actually have a minor/fun/ulteriour motive in coming up with/expressing such a concept... and that was towards asking - is Whiff-Whaff/Ping-Pong therefore the one sport where the instrument of play (the racket or even the ball) is not made contemptable in the form of brandishments by advertisements? Even if it is for one's own tournament/league...
"Good luck with that!"
WOW, I wasn't expecting that roast!
I won a local table tennis tournaments as a child and john hilton presented the trophy, fun to see it come around.
Did he flip the trophy through the air at you, and halfway across, it spun 180° on its short axis?
A symmetric object has three axes of symmetry, one longest, one shortest and one in between. Another way to look at it is that the spin around those axes will be fastest, slowest, and in between.
Whatever the ratios between them, they're always in some order like that.
It turns out that the fastest and slowest spins are always stable - if you are not quite spinning around the fastest or slowest axis, the spin will converge on it.
But the middle axis is always unstable. A small perturbation from the exact axis will end up sliding through a bit of spin around one of the other axes, more likely the fastest spinning one.
🙃
It's so Interesting I wish I understood what you just said.
Intermediate axis theorem. There is a good veritasium video on it.
It's the same reason your phone always flips over when you toss it in the air. Or why skateboards can kick flip so easily
The reason for this occuring is that each of the three axis have a differing moment of inertia. Particularly the intermediate axis cannot spin in a stable fashion because of the inertia from the other two axis' interfering.
Wow, that was indeed... Quite Interesting. 🏓
Whether it is the youtube algorithm or just sheer coincidence i happened just a day or so ago to watch a video on youtube on the varitasium channel that covers this very topic in more depth & was fascinated - enough to recommend it to anyone who reads this "the bizarre physics of wingnuts" or similar. Well worth a watch
One of the best experiments in QI history.
There's also a veritasium video going into more detail on why this happens.
"The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies"
Thanks for sharing...Gonna watch it ASAP
Physics Girl did video a while back on it too. ua-cam.com/video/yFRPhi0jhGc/v-deo.html
And a Matt Parker one that’s an even better explanation to me
If Alan ever decides to leave then they need to get Susan in to replace him, her and Sandi together is priceless.
I think veritaseum did quite an excellent explainer on the spinning wingnut phenomenon.
Now that was fascinating 😮😍
This is what, in addition to his magnificent brain, made Richard Feynman the scientist he was.
He wasn't afraid or ashamed to say "I don't know."
Those who present themselves as know-it-alls have never discovered a damn thing.
Veritasium has a good video on the flipping wing nut.
I learned about that "spin-flip" effect with a hammer (by reading a short squib in either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazine in the early 1970s). An ordinary claw hammer (or better, a straight-claw framing hammer) has the same property: hold it by the handle with the head oriented to your right and left, flip it and catch it by the handle, and it will inevitably reverse the orientation of hammer face and claws along the way.
ONCE, twenty-some years ago, I managed to flip a framing hammer (a Death Stick, hickory handle and titanium head, though those details most likely don't matter) without it doing that -- after twenty or so attempts to apply *exactly* the right amount of counter-torque while flipping. I'll agree, this is most likely impossible with a relatively lightweight object like a table tennis bat.
BTW, it *is* possible to flip a hammer without it reversing, if you hold it *by the head.* Careful you don't whack yourself in the forehead with the handle, however...
I thought this was called the intermediate axis theorem, but I see the Wikipedia calls it the Tennis racket theorem. You can do the same thing with a typical slate-style smartphone. Probably best to do over a bed or a soft chair. It has a short axis through the middle front front to back, a long axis from top to bottom, and an intermediate axis from side to side. You can throw it with a spin around either the short or the long axis, and it will keep spinning the same way as it flies. But if you spin it around the intermediate axis it will tumble and change spin direction in the air.
Oh, cool! I have actually kinda noticed that before jus messing around with my phone without realizing why that was happening! Thanks for sharing that example and explanation
Surprised nobody suggested they were made of cats.
You don't have to have red and black rubbers anymore, just two different colors. Blue and pink rubbers are also made now for instance. It's also called a bat not a racket.
Table Tennis England say that one side must be black, the other can be any colour which can be clearly distinguished from black and from the colour of the ball (rule 2.4.6).
Physics Girl has a video "Why this trick should be impossible" on the physics of skateboarding (particularly "the impossible") about the same effect that viewers might enjoy.
Veritasium has a video "The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies" that defies Feynman by explaining the effect intuitively (an explanation owing to Terence Tao). Also brings in the Cold War and the apocalypse.
It's not impossible, it just requires more than one "flip" in the toss (or a PERFECT flip about the intermediate axis)
lol, skateboard joke?
Ollie impossible.
Specifically, an even number of flips.
thanks
At about 3:10 I swear Tom does it.
Probably started black.
@@Tillyard86 Yes. You don't actually see the paddle in his hand or tossing it, but in the first frame where the paddle can be seen, it's in the air level with Tom's face, handle straight down, red side facing us.
@@JimC which would suggest it started with black facing up.
What else spin? The earth, someday, it will flip ;)
It's been hypohesised that it has. Venus spins the other way, so that may be the evidence of the effect.
It's not impossible, just incredibly unlikely. You have to get the paddle thrown in a fabulously precise way so that the axis is in essence balanced. The problem is that the axis is so short that finding that one tiny point of balance is very difficult. I've seen it done with a paddle, but I doubt I'll ever see it again.
The precession proceeds exponentially - so yes, if you keep it VERY tight, there's a chance that you'll catch it before it's flipped (but it will have already begun the process). Essentially the same thing as trying to balance something on a pin - sure you theoretically could, but even if you account for thermal effects, there's enough energy to move the thing off the balance point (keyword: unstable equilibrium). There's a much easier way to catch it original side up - just throw it high enough that you get two complete rotations in that axis.
I had a table tennis table and racquets when I was younger and the paddles were green on one side, blue on the other.
Another name for this is the intermediate axis theorem. Veritasium did a video about it.
Quite Interesting!
Sceptically convinced it is simply a consequence of the height the bat is thrown how many rotations are possible, thus determing the colour on landing, science is paused whilst the bat is being repaired.
If you drop a small hard rubber ball with a spin (like a back spin) the ball's spin will reverse after it hits and bounces back... this process of reversing its spin will continue until the momentum of the initial spin dies away.
I use this to win heads or tails every time too
Any connection with the toast always landing jam side down? 😁
They're commonly green/blue in Australia. For casual tables anyway.
I want to spin the space station and see if it does the same.
I'm surprised they didn't mention penhold & shakehand styles of playing.
Hang on, 3:11 immediately before Sandi says it's impossible, we see Tom Allen catch it red side up!
He probably threw it from the black side.
INTERMEDIATE AXIS THEOREM
This is commonly known as the tennis racket theorem, or more boringly as the intermediate axis theorem. I don't know of a simple way to explain it either. It falls out of the math very clearly. Maybe someone could explain it to me in a more intuitive way.
I'm pretty sure there was a video with an attempt to explain it clearly. I don't remember who made it, but I think it was one of:
3Blue1Brown
Smarter Every Day
Minute Physics
Steve Mould
I'll go look for the video now, hopefully I can find it!
Edit: oh, dozens of other comments already mention it was Veritasium. Here: ua-cam.com/video/1VPfZ_XzisU/v-deo.html
@@NeatNit I love that it’s the one channel you left out :)
@@MeppyMan yup, that's always how it goes....
@@NeatNit I think we might be in the same UA-cam bubble. :)
Actually , since 2021, the rubbers can be any colour as long as they are significantly different. Pink & Blue etc.
Just to note, this episode aired in 2020.
2.4.6 The surface of the covering material on a side of the blade, or of a side of
the blade if it is left uncovered, shall be matt, black on one side, and of a
bright colour clearly distinguishable from black and from the colour of the
ball on the other. (ITTF: The Laws of Table Tennis 2022)
@@davidmackenzie9701 Yes I was mistaken. Black must be one of the colours. The others can be Blue, Green, pink, purple or red.
It's raquet, not 'racket' but, in any case, table tennis is played with a bat.
Oh dear, my ‘good’ table tennis bat, albeit from a few years before mentioned here, is black and black???
Hang on a minute, did Alan just reference quantum entanglement?
Table tennis racket? Bat, surely?
The laws of the game call it a Racket.
i think they are wrong about not being able to catch the racket on the same side. all you need to do is let the racket flip twice in the air. since one flip inverts it, a second rights it.
I had a red and blue racket. Am I gonna get in trouble?
Actually, I think Susan is quite cute.
I hope they redo this with the sound.
And there was me thinking rackets were strung and they were called bats in table tennis...!
racquet not racket in this context
I love how it's the same with mobile phones, no matter how perfect the flip it will most likely turn around mid air
Edit: I am not responsible if you drop it and it breaks
I was intrigued by your comment and I was plesantly surprised. A full 360 flip and most of the time it will land opposite side up. I did it roughly 50 times, but i did managed 2 flips where i (by luck) didnt impart any spin in the other axis and it landed the same side up. So mostly true when it come to doing this with a phone.
I do love it when they do stuff on QI that you can immediately try it out for yourself.
I have just tested this and I was able to catch it on the same side I threw it from multiple times so it’s not true. It was about 50/50 which side it landed on. I was only throwing it with the screen side up.
1:14 The look of a Scottish person who actually got a question right
I thought they were called a paddle and not a racquet
They are bats in table tennis.
In my lifetime of playing table tennis in United Kingdom it was always referred to a "bat". Racket sounds like American-English. Does anyone know?
American here, and I've usually heard it called a "paddle".
Per Wikipedia:
The USA generally uses the term "paddle" while Europeans and Asians use the term "bat" and the official [International Table Tennis Federation] term is "racket".
@@steve470 10 points to this man 😀
In the rules on Table Tennis England it is called a racket. See Table Tennis England Laws & By-Laws 2020-21 (02.06.21) 2.4
I thought it was a bat as it doesn't have strings
If you think you understand table tennis rackets, you don’t understand table tennis rackets.
HELLO
No sound here either
Surely if you throw it up high enough you end up flipping it back to red?
If you try, it turns out to be almost impossible in practice. But yes, it can be done. The paddle has to complete two full rotations instead of one.
Correct yes, it's very easy to master the intermediate axis theorem in practice, knowing how much flick to give it and how much time you need to let it spin before catching it is very easy to learn intuitively.
The spin of the racquet must be somehow affected by a further rotational force such as that of our solar system as it rotates within our galaxy.
Did it stress anyone else out that they were touching the rubbers? I was taught as a kid never to touch the rubber of a table tennis bat. Just me?
Why don't spinning satellites do that, then? They must not be into table tennis.
They would. But satellites don't spin at all unless something is going wrong.
@@EebstertheGreat not entirely true. Satellites were spun early on to help stabilise their orbits. That’s actually where this effect first raised its head in space.
Most satellites do not spin. They have gyroscopes and reaction wheels for stability control.
@@MeppyMan And presumably when they do spin they're designed to spin around the long axis or the short axis, not the unstable intermediate axis.
@@MeppyMan Wouldn't a satellite that spins on one axis usually point away from the Earth? How exactly does that work?
Is it just me... or is there no sound?
Nope no sound
No sound with me either
Whew, I thought my phone was dying.
There's sound now
Same
They are bats, not rackets or racquets
Paddles I'd say. In any case they aren't racquets, by definition, because they aren't strung.
@@aaronwebb1548 I forgot Americans call them paddles but not strung is the main thing
You may wish to present your objection to the International Table Tennis Federation, which calls them rackets.
@@davepowell6835 Well I'm Australian, but point taken.
Yes they are. In the rules they are explicitly called rackets (not racquets).
What if you are colour blind.
@Don Doodat Well, I guess that answers that question.
You could still judge the relative lighter/darker sides.
It's called a paddle, not a racquet.
Surely a paddle is what you use with your kayak, or a paddle steamer.
@@davidmackenzie9701 Fencing is both erecting a barrier and an Olympic sport.
Your counterpoint is that one word is used in some contexts so cannot be used in others? That's some obviously flawed reasoning you're sporting there, Sport.
@@Zachorazor1 And it is officially called a racket.
@@davidmackenzie9701 No. You're the one that tried to bring in other usages to obfuscate your fault. And you don't even know how to spell racquet.
@@Zachorazor1 No, you don't understand that, in the official rules of table tennis, it is spelled racket.
ITS HALF PAST 3
OH THE SOUNDS BACK
That woman looks like Harry maguire
Mostly b*ll*cks bar the video from Soyuz & (surprisingly) Alan's comment:
Damnit they're not even *raquets* ............ Like Sandy - They're *BATS*
Throw & Flip the bat with differing forces & angles of 'flick' and you surely you have every prospect of dedtermining which side lands uppermost? (It works with other items afterall)
Why is Alan's comment a gem?
He kind of articulated with great simplicity one of the core precepts of Special Relativity & Quantum linkage
Now please excuse me - I have to go and flip off a bat 🙄
It is truly inexplicable if Feynman can't explic it 😈
PS: they are called BATS not rackets!!!
According to the official rules of Table Tennis, they are rackets, not bats.
1:06 gets clapped for telling everyone she's going to say something that was said to her - in essence she is repeating what someone else said. Get's applauded like she's saved an orphanage??
An interesting phenomenon I did not know.
However something extremely annoying to me.
A racquet has strings, and you play sports like tennis, badminton and squash with a racquet.
A table tennis bat (paddle US) is not a racquet.
Also I know in Britain we accept the US spelling of racquet, but this is the British Broadcasting Company not the American Broadcasting Company.
And a racket (note the spelling) is, according to the International Table Tennis Federation rule 2.4, what you use in table tennis to hit the ball.
@@davidmackenzie9701 Hi David I fully understand what you are trying to say. Unfortunately, most dictionary’s definition of racquet (US racket) is “ a piece of sports equipment used for hitting the ball, etc. in the games of tennis, squash or badminton. It has an oval frame, with strings stretched across and down it.”
Personally, I would rather believe the definition given by educated professionals who write and maintain the Oxford dictionary, than a ping pong player who made up the rules up for table tennis.
Maybe that’s where they got confused when they saw the word “tennis” and presumed to call the table tennis bat a racquet (US racket) in the rules of table tennis, and didn’t bother to look at the definition of racquet (US racket)?
Alan is NOT FUNNY
What do you intend to do about it ?
Nice ratio, 1 straight guest 3 gay guests and 1 gay presenter. I am not anti anything or anyone, but a fair representation of the demographic of the nation would not go amiss.
And, over the whole series? And over all series?
"not anti anything" I smell bullshit.
Tom Allen has ruined almost as many shows as Rob Beckett or that Kardashian Catherine woman.
So 0, then? Seems a bit pointless mentioning it, though?
(Not entirely sure who “that Kardashian Catherine woman” is?)
@@DrWhoFanJ He means Katherine Ryan. I agree with you, these comedians are fine by me. Can't stand Jack Whitehall or Jon Ross though, which only goes to show everyone has different tastes. What a surprise :)
Rob, just accept it.
He was better on Bake Off than you were.
And stop using these fake accounts.
i dont know any of these people apart from alan and the host and even they aren't that funny anymore
And you don’t know Sandi all that well if you can’t even remember her name!
(And they are very much funny; that’s *literally* their jobs!)
They might not be funny anymore...
...but at least, unlike you, they were actually funny at one point in their lives.
Susan Calman: "So you get extra points for being cute?"
Sandi: "Yes; good luck with that."
That was damn funny.